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...come under fire often during the two years I served in Afghanistan as a lieutenant in the 103rd Airborne Division, commanded by General Pavel Grachev, who is now our Defense Minister. But the harrowing situation on the streets of Grozny was like nothing I had ever experienced in Afghanistan. The commander of my vehicle had no map of the city and no idea where he was going. He was not even able to make radio contact with the other two APCs and admitted that he had simply been thrown together with soldiers and vehicles from different units and told...
...weeks after Defense Minister Pavel Grachev boasted that his forces would subdue Chechnya's rebellion in a matter of hours, the Russian tricolor finally fluttered last week atop the ruins of the presidential palace in Grozny. As resistance fighters melted into the suburbs and took to the hills, the bloody battle for control of the Chechen capital shifted sufficiently in Moscow's favor to allow Boris Yeltsin to claim victory. This he speedily did. ``The military stage of restoring the constitution in Chechnya is effectively over,'' he declared in Moscow, adding that the time had come for the ``restoration...
...hand to meet some of them on the Russian border of Chechnya was Grachev. In a meeting with reporters, he seemed on the defensive, denying he was in a panic to take Grozny. "Have I been telling you about a blitzkrieg?" he asked. "This I certainly never did." On the contrary, said Grachev, rushing the campaign in Chechnya "would only lead to heavy personnel losses." Besides, he said, the President had decreed that an effort be made to limit civilian casualties, so the army was refraining from "using indiscriminately all the firepower we have...
...Grachev has been feuding with some of the army's top commanders and is trying to fire three of his deputy ministers, including General Boris Gromov, a popular hero of the war in Afghanistan. Gromov in turn has called on Grachev to resign. Such moves, like the plan to shift command of the army to the President, have been left hanging for now. But if Yeltsin is still in the market for scapegoats, that whole group of squabbling generals might fill the bill...
...PAVEL GRACHEV...